In Chapter 10 in Reading With Meaning by Debbie Miller, she reminds us of the importance in teaching students to read for specific information to their questions, and in Determining Importance in Nonfiction text.
Unlike determing importance in fiction, where readers identify themes in stories, make inferences, predict, and use what they know about narrative text to distinguish important from unimportant information, readers begin to "read to learn" in nonfiction text.
In Chapter 10, Debbie teaches us the importance of:
Modeling Differences Between Fiction and Nonfiction pg. 144
Noticing and Remembering When We Learn Something New pg. 147
Convention notebooks pg. 148
Locating Specific Information pg. 150
Evidence of Understanding and Understandingpg. 152
In Chapter 10 in Reading With Meaning by Debbie Miller, she reminds us of the importance in teaching students to read for specific information to their questions, and in Determining Importance in Nonfiction text.
Unlike determing importance in fiction, where readers identify themes in stories, make inferences, predict, and use what they know about narrative text to distinguish important from unimportant information, readers begin to "read to learn" in nonfiction text.
In Chapter 10, Debbie teaches us the importance of:
Determining Importance Poster:
Into the book lessons
Texts for Determing Importance in Nonfiction Text
Julie Lorusso's lesson plan
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